Vol. 8 No. 16 (2022): Essays of Geography

COVER

Rua Monte Líbano, Teresópolis, Brazil, August 2021.

I see the street as a living organism. Streets are like arteries, hurried pedestrians, loud and noisy cars, children playing, the uncle who sells popsicles? Everything and everyone is an essential part of this urban and human ecosystem that we build without planning and help to maintain every time we leave the private universe of home for the reality of everyday life. It is crazy to think that for some people street and home are the same thing, isn't it? Sidewalks are converted into palanques as easily as they become bedrooms for those who have no choice...

The street is a place of coexistence between opposites, the rich and the poor, the hurried and the idle, the phone booth and the smartphone... The photo shows the ruins of an element that once served as a bridge between relatives, colleagues, lovers... It has already been a bearer of bad news and has already killed longing... Today it serves as shelter from the sun and the rain. Things change, time goes by, the phone becomes a pocket article... We forget, but the street doesn't.

The street remembers.

Canon T7i, 50mm lens

Luke Martins

Photographer

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